Allelic variation and water use

February 22, 2014

Allelic variation and water use

Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,David Des Marais and colleagues identified an interesting role of allelic variation in driving variation in water use efficiency. Comparing two natural genotypes of Arabidopsis thaliana, they found that a single amino acid substitution in the protein, MPK12,resulted in differing responses to environmental cues. abstract »alt »